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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 June 2007
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A literary pilgrimage to rural lands near Wellington, NSW, while writing a book about Louisa Lawson. You never arrive: there is no pub, no post office, no CWA; no change in the benign parquetry of land ploughed, harvested, under crop, straggling with native scrub.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 May 2007
Traffic chaos suggests a reason Italians are so good at opera. Life in their cities unfolds each day not with the rational continuity of the novel, or the spareness of the short story, but with traditional opera’s volatility and impatience with the mundane.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The big Mobil was built in town, then Woolworths started selling discount petrol. Customers who had been coming in for years either grew to old to drive, or passed away, with few new customers taking their place.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 June 2006
There’s a lot of reality around at the moment – at Guantanamo, in Baghdad, in East Timor, in Australian workplaces. To be fully human, we must observe, take account of, and if possible influence these realities as best we can; at the same time life, ordinary quotidian life, must go on.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 22 May 2006
Towards the end of a bleak, mid-February Friday, the wind started to groan through the narrow, village streets. Shutters creaked and in the valley below a filmy curtain materialised over the vines and blurred the outlines of the farmhouses.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McGirr
- 11 May 2006
While Dan Brown and Mel Gibson can draw a crowd, Michael McGirr finds their stories still miss the mark.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 30 April 2006
Brian Matthews has words with Julian Burnside’s Word Watching, and Don Watson’s Weasel Words.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 23 April 2006
Although a Delta Goodrem launch would no doubt draw a larger attendance, perhaps a celebration of Henry Lawson, would be a more notable and important Australian event.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Brian Matthews writes the By the Way column for Eureka Street. Brian is honorary Professor of English at Flinders University, Adelaide where he taught for 25 years and was awarded Flinders' first Personal Chair in English. He was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Oregon, 1986, and subsequently held visiting professorships at the universities of Trento, Venice and Bologna. He was head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and professor of Australian studies at the University of London, 1993–96. In 1997 he became foundation director of the Europe Australia Institute at Victoria University, Melbourne. As a writer of biography, fiction and memoir and as a columnist for the Weekend Australian Magazine and Eureka Street, he has won numerous
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